QUOTE OF THE DAY - Weasel words

It's Friday, so I have been surfing a bit off track.

So I came across this:

Reporting on comedy's new offenders wasn't intended to offend

As it's a 'luvvie on luvvie' spat, in the Grauniad taboot, and even better about racism, there are all the elements of good spectator sport.

But, fresh from po-faced 'defences' of jounalistic opinion poorly disguised as objective commentary across the print and broadcast infirmament, I have to treasure this:

I took care to use words like "purported" hatred of Pakistanis, and "claims" to support the BNP, to distance him from these actual sentiments

I do rather wonder if such sincerity of intent is to the fore in most headlines I see these days, with key words in "quotes".